“Dear Yone, whatever may happen, I cannot possibly keep myself from
thinking about him! You know that you can get a hundred _ryō_ to have
the _o-fuda_ taken off…. Only once more, I pray, dear Yone!—only once
more bring me face to face with Hagiwara Sama,—I beseech you!” And
hiding her face with her sleeve, she thus continued to plead.
“Oh! why will you ask me to do these things?” responded O-Yoné. “You
know very well that I have no money. But since you will persist in this
whim of yours, in spite of all that I can say, I suppose that I must
try to find the money somehow, and to bring it here to-morrow night….”
Then, turning to the faithless Tomozō, she said:—“Tomozō, I must tell
you that Hagiwara Sama now wears upon his body a _mamori_ called by the
name of _Kai-On-Nyōrai_, and that so long as he wears it we cannot
approach him. So you will have to get that _mamori_ away from him, by
some means or other, as well as to remove the _o-fuda_.”